✽ Mandy ✽
I asked Rosa to take the pastry tool set with her, and that I needed time to myself. Nico argued and wanted me to be around people, but I reassured them both that I was fine. I watched them drive away, but I refused to check if Jason was still sitting on the bench. Instead, I started to walk. I walked until my feet hurt and my thoughts started lining up instead of crashing into each other. The city looked normal around me as people went on with their lives, unaware of the turmoil inside me. I hated them all. And then I hated myself for hating them. Jason didn’t regret a thing. He wasn’t ashamed of his actions. He realized and understood that it was wrong. He had destroyed the cameras, and he had deleted all the files. He made it clear that I still belonged to him, but that the c
